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accuracy

[ak-yer-uh-see] / ˈæk jΙ™r Ι™ si /


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A human translator checked a 10% sample for accuracy; all were without meaningful errors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The day Israel voted in its consequential election this week, Kalshi Chief Executive Tarek Mansour was in Midtown Manhattan defending the accuracy of his platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

But the accuracy of the count is not among them.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

But there's a more subtle problem that hasn't attracted the same headline-grabbing attention: that AI could undermine faith in the scientific process, raising questions about the novelty and accuracy of research.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

They began jumping, sending each other higher and higher, and coming down on the board with incredible accuracy.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

It also measured concentrations in water-based and organic solutions with accuracies of approximately 0.01%, exceeding the performance of commercial benchtop spectrometers in those experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Still, though, the ALA's reliance on media accounts and reports from librarians remains a confounding variable in the numerical accuracies, as the body has previously noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

“That report was not completely accurate but there’s some accuracies in it,” said Jayna Hefford, a four-time Olympic gold medalist for Canada who is the PWHPA’s lead operations consultant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Let the D.C. curriculum reflect the historical accuracies, including the murder — the Holocaust — of millions, particularly Jews, during World War II.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023

It does not follow, with any great poet, that he is bothering much with historical or other accuracies, or sticking very closely even to tradition.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris


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